A native of Oakland, California, Elizabeth Morgan is a historical musicologist and pianist. Her research interests include keyboard and chamber music of the long nineteenth century, music and the body, virtuosity, and music and gender in the United States and Great Britain. She has published articles in 19th-century Music, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Nineteenth-Century Music Review and she has contributed to collections published by Ashgate and Routledge. As a pianist, Professor Morgan has performed throughout the US, as well as abroad. She frequently gives conversational and lecture recitals, where she introduces musical works with commentary from the keyboard, often tying programs together with a common theme or idea. In recent seasons, she has performed as soloist with orchestras on both coasts, including Carnival of the Animals with the Seattle Symphony (2019) and the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra (2022), and she has given lecture recitals at countless American universities. She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in piano performance at Juilliard, and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano at UCLA, concurrently with her Ph.D in musicology.
Professor Morgan teaches music history, piano performance, and chamber music at St. Joe's. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband, their two sons, and their wire fox terrier.
